delighted - Story 24444 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The usual, dull beige of the dorm room seemed to glow. His heart felt light, as if a weight had been lifted. The air itself seemed to hum with something akin to joy. Mark tapped his pen against his teeth, a small, involuntary smile playing on his lips.

He caught his roommate, David, meticulously putting away a stack of books. David’s usual stoicism seemed… different. He was unusually quiet. Mark leaned against the doorframe, feeling a surge of affection for his roommate.

"Coffee?" Mark asked, the word sounding like a song. David just grunted a response, but Mark knew things were wonderful.

Emotion: delighted

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.80 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.26

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion delighted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 delighted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the delighted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the delighted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`!`	0.611
`🤩`	0.536
`de`	0.530
`ecstatic`	0.527
`🎉`	0.524

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.687
`😞`	-0.562
`ness`	-0.471
`😔`	-0.385
`😥`	-0.379